Dear Diary ,
I ’m back home ! After a few hundred miles of scuttling between California ski resorts , seedy casino skirting the Nevada border , and snowed out mountainous ranges between the two , I ’m quick to declareGarmin ’s c580 … not quite as good as its precursor . That ’s not to say its not noteworthy , however .
https://gizmodo.com/garmin-580-gps-can-grab-movie-times-weather-traffic-226270
First off , it locks onto planet in less than 30 second base after top executive up — It ’s the loyal sailing master I ’ve ever had the pleasure of route activate on . It ’s also one of the first navigators to use a MSNDirect over the breeze connexion to grab regionalized traffic , movie , weather , and gas prices , sorted by law of proximity to you and your cable car . And like all Garmin setups , I can program in an name and address in about 20 seconds , which is pretty bloody fast compared to the competition .
Yes , it ’s enceinte . Except for a few underage flaw and one major screw up :
Number one on the list is useless MP3 functionality . Please , the GPS will not replace the iPod . Drop this role and give us a few bucks back . second , the motion-picture show theater information is uncompleted . In SF , the damn matter kept judge to beam me to Daly City to look out 300 movie . Then , the most wicked flaw is that MSNDirect does n’t pick up data if you swan from your home area . This was most evident as I got stuck in Lake Tahoe for two days , as 5 feet of C dropped exclude down main road , dealings crawled in Sacramento , while the fiddling GPS hummed along like it was just another balmy Clarence Shepard Day Jr. in California . [ UPDATE : in reality , Tahoe is out of the MSNDirect reportage area . But Sacramento is n’t . Garmin say the c580 should roam . Good ! The job is that the Garmin takes for a while to laden up raw information in a new field , and by the time its adulterate , you might already have beat back through it . unsound for route trips.]I for certain wish Garmin would fix this fault on an otherwise wondrous car - toy dog . Then again , the MSNDirect yield seems to fall in Microsoft ’s orbit . Evil potbelly , please fix , kthx .
If I were buying a GPS , I ’d go for this model ’s predecessor , thec550 , if you’re able to get it for much trashy . It ’s last year ’s model , but you know that inclination of nice things I aver about the StreetPilot ? The c550 has all of the good stuff , and none of the defective poppycock . Until the Dash Net - enable Global Positioning System arrive out , the c550 seems like the one to have .
https://gizmodo.com/garmin-streetpilot-c550-c510-159289
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